Full text translation: Complete
Translator: Resident Evie
Full English translated game text files now available HERE
Project Mizzurna has been featured on the following sites:
Vice (2) Fanhack Problems
Vice (1) Inc. Talk w/ translator
Rolling Stone/Glixel (2) (NEW)
Waypoint
Polygon
The Absolute
Motherboard (Netherlands)
Idle Thumbs (Podcast)
Retrogaming Magazine
Rolling Stone/Glixel (1)
SA Gamer
☆About The Project☆
Project Mizzurna is dedicated to the pursuit of a full English translation of the text of Mizzurna Falls, the 1998 Playstation open-world murder mystery adventure game released by the now-defunct company Human Entertainment. This project is intended to help spread the word of this highly influential game to western players.
☆About The Game☆
Mizzurna Falls was the final game released by Human Entertainment, the creators of the Clock Tower series. In Mizzurna Falls, a young man named Matthew must search for his missing friend Emma in an open-world, real-time game environment with a heavy emphasis on complex storytelling and dialogue. The game , which is heavily influenced by the works of David Lynch, has never been localised into English or released outside of Japan, and yet it was a clear influence on games such as Shenmue and Deadly Premonition.
Mizzurna Falls features:
Real-time gameplay and story
Day-night cycle
Weather cycle
Quick-time events
Full-rendered entire town to explore
(minimal loading times)
Driving, boating, shooting and fistfighting sections
Personal car and cell phone
Complete freedom of movement
Multiple endings (Good/Bad1/Bad2)
NPCs who follow their own schedules
A well-written, engaging narrative
Cast of memorable, quirky characters
CONTENT
☆Translation Project Updates
Check current project status
☆Interview with Mizzurna Falls' Director☆
Director, planner and scenario writer Taichi Ishizuka discusses his motivations and influences for the game.
☆Let's Play☆
(Complete) My blind and on-the-fly complete YouTube playthrough of the game with each line voiced over in English in a quick&dirty style. Features the good ending!
☆English Visual (with pictures!) Walkthrough Bilingual Guide☆
(COMPLETE)
☆Translated Game Script☆
The story of the game.
(COMPLETE. Final Word Count: 40,000)
☆Mizzurna Descends
The Mizzurna Falls prologue in visual novel form, for fun!
☆Influences☆
An in-depth look at all of the similarities between Mizzurna and its most obvious influences, Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet.
☆Screenshots☆
Beautiful scenes from around the town. Feel free to submit!
☆Music☆
Music from the game.
☆Discussion☆
Interesting stuff from around the web
☆Artwork☆
Fan art! Feel free to submit!
Disclaimer
This page is the property of Resident Evie (formerly Eevee), a JP-ENG translator living in Japan, and all content within, including translations, videos, and writings are the property of the same, unless otherwise specified. Please credit and link back to this page when quoting from any of the content contained herein. Mizzurna Falls is an extremely long, difficult and complex game with a dense Japanese script. Translating this game was a difficult, not-for-profit endeavour, so please be respectful of the effort involved and give credit where credit is due. Thank you!
If you would like to use my translation as a source text for translation into another language, please feel free, and let me know so I can update fans via this webpage! Good luck!
(residenteeveeatgmail.com)
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Here's an "english" version for "Mizzurna Falls" : https://t.co/YAcv8rONlN It's not a real translation patch, it just replace japanese texts with IDs and you should look in a text file to read the translation. #MizzurnaFalls #projectmizzurna #Mizzurna @residentevie
So, here’s what’s really going on with the Mizzurna Falls project. Over the past year, I unfortunately didn’t manage to get much communication with the very skilled person who’s currently making a fanhack patch using my complete translation. I asked for help and advice on Twitter, and several people were able to educate me on rom hacking and making patches for psone games. (Thanks to those who contacted me!) I learned a few things, which were really helpful for my perspective.
One thing I learned was the size and scope of a project like this - how many work hours you could roughly expect it to take if one person was working on the project on a regular basis (it is a lot).
Another thing I learned was about some of the “codes of conduct” of fan hacking. Apparently, many fanhackers will make a point of not responding to any requests for updates.
This may be the way it’s done in the fan hacking world, but I don’t belong to that world. I’m a translator and a fan of an obscure game. My work on Mizzurna has been transparently documented online from day one. I translated that game, and I’d love to see that translation put to use someday.
So, I’ve come to a decision. (I have attempted to run this decision by the person who is currently working on a fan hack, but have not been able to get a response in some months now. I can see they have been active in the fan hacking community with other projects, and I understand they must be very busy. So I have decided to go ahead without their input.)
It seems to me that there’s not that much merit for me in allowing one person to have exclusive use of my translation. I can’t control how and when that translation will be made into a patch. It could be never. So, I’ve decided to take a different approach.
Namely, I have decided to release the full and complete English text files online for anybody with internet access to use freely, for translation into other languages, for fanhack attempts, or whatever.
Files available here
(If you decide to use my files for your own translation or fan hacking project, please drop me an email and let me know about it! (residenteevee at gmail) I’d love to share the news on Project Mizzurna!)
Of course, I still offer the current fanhacker complete free use of my translation, and I’m always available to assist them with anything I can. I wish them well in their efforts, but I’m not going to keep my translation private anymore. I didn’t translate Mizzurna Falls for internet kudos or accolades, (it would have been nice, but...) I did it because the game deserves to be known by a global audience. Making my translation 100% open and available online is the best way I know to try to make this happen. It’s about all I can do. So I’m doing it.
TL;DR Mizzurna Falls full English translated game text files now available to download in English, for other-language translation attempts/fan hack attempts.
Hello everyone, in the interests of transparency and because I know what it’s like to wait and wait for something and be kept in the dark, here’s an update on the Mizzurna Falls translation/hack.
As I’ve said here before, I finished the entire translation into the game files in December 2016 and submitted them to the hacker at the same time. In August this year (2017) I received a partially playable build with the text in-game, however there were some crashes and text issues due to a technical snag that the hacker is currently working on.
I’ve had a lot of messages asking for updates as well as a few messages asking to “just send ME the file!” Guys, it doesn’t exist in playable form yet, and I have zero control over when or if that happens. That ability lies solely with the hacker, who I’m sure is a busy person with their own stuff going on.
If you’d like to see the hack progress, it’s probably better to motivate the hacker via their social media rather than keep asking me. It frustrates me that I don’t have anything to give you guys, because your support has been so wonderful and I do appreciate it very much. But these things take time.
If you skip too many cutscenes, the game won’t give you highlights on your map to show you where to go, because you didn’t pay enough attention to have made the note on your map yourself.
@residentevie I am your fan, I am very excited waiting for the launch of the mizzurna project.
Here my reinterpretation of the game alley. pic.twitter.com/MNVdkDd6sk
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